Train Birthday Party

My toddler is gone. He's officially a three-year-old little boy. This morning we celebrated his birthday with the train party he's been requesting since the day after his last birthday.


The favors. (There are close ups farther down.)


Ben used painter's tape to make train tracks around the house.


We intended for the kids to walk on the tracks and play in the train tent that was parked in the other room. Leave it to three-year-olds to figure out that you can pick up the tent and drive it on the tracks. Genius, I tell ya'! LOL.


Favor bags. I bought solid blue bags and stamped the train tracks on the front. I also made the name tags to look like yellow railroad crossing signs.

Those wooden trains are little train whistles. I'm pretty sure we were only 10 minutes into the party before I stashed them away in the kids' favor bags. Whoa, noisy!


Train-shaped lollipops.


Train sipper cups. Are these cute or what!?


Moving along to the party food...I made cupcakes and topped them with yellow railroad warning signs that I designed on my computer.


I also made fruit kabobs and cheese cut into train shapes. Dairy cars - I'm so clever. I bought three loaves of bread and a large train-shaped cookie cutter to make train-shaped sandwiches, but completely forgot about making them until I was setting out the food this morning. Oops. The kids didn't miss them. But I guess my boys will be eating French toast for breakfast everyday next week. :)


The adorable Waldorf doll Lincoln's preschool teacher made for him. I perched our plush friend where he could watch over the festivities.


See this amazing train setup? Three levels high. I made it. Yep, I'm finally getting the hang of playing with boy toys.


Last but not least, the birthday boy showing us the proper way to eat a cupcake - icing first!